Curtain rod and bracket.



F. LA 0. LATHROP.

CURTAIN ROD AND BRACKET.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 20, 1912.

1,070,144, Patented Aug. 12, 1913.

'3 woe/whom UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANK LA OTIS LATHROP, OF WALLINGFOBD, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR T0 H. L. JUDD COMPANY, OF WALLINGFORD, CONNECTICUT, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

CURTAIN ROD AND BRACKET.

To all w/mm it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK LA OTIS Larunor, a citizen of the United States, residing at \Vallingford, New Haven county, State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Curtain Rods and Brackets, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to an improved form of curtain rod and supporting bracket structure, wherein a form of support is provided for the rod end, which support provides a substantial bearing for the rod end and means for quickly and detachably securing the rod end thereto.

The invention further resides in certain specific details of construction hereinafter pointed out.

A preferable embodiment of the invention is described in detail in the following specification taken in connection with the accompanying drawings forming a part thereof.

In these drawings :Figure l is a plan view of a rod and bracket structure embodying the present invention. Fig. 2 is a sectional view taken longitudinally of the supporting bracket and on an enlarged scale. Fig. 3 is an end view of the bracket. Fig. -l is a view in side elevation of the parts shown in Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is a fragmentary view, partly in section, of the curtain rod end cooperating with the bracket.

Referring to the drawings by numerals, 1 and 2 designate the cooperating sections of a tubular telescoping curtain rod of the goose-neck type, the terminal ends of the rod structure being provided with enlargements 3 having an annular groove 4 formed therein and having a recess 6 formed in their end faces. The annular groove 4 provides annular abutment flanges 5 which are adapted to engage certain retaining or stop members carried by the bracket as will be hereinafter described. As the construction of a single rod end and bracket is alone involved, I will describe only one such end structure, as both shown in the drawings are identical.

The supporting bracket which cooperates with the rod end is preferably formed of an integral piece of sheet metal stamped to provide a base plate 7 arranged to be se cured to a suitable support and having an offset portion 8 extending at right angles and outwardly therefrom, this offset portion being angular in cross section and provid- Specifieation of Letters Patent.

Application filed May 20, 1913.

extent of the cupped offset.

Patented Aug. 12,1913.

Serial No. 768,733.

ing a cupped offset having an are greater than a semi-circle and of slightly greater diameter than the end 3 of the curtain rod. Adjacent the base plate 7 the side walls of the offset portion are extended as at 9 to provide guide flanges for the end 3 of the curtain rod, by means of wiich said rod end may be guided to the base of the offset 8. Adjacent the base plate 7 and in circumferential alinenient are a plurality of stop lugs 10, which are preferably struck up from the material of the offset portion and which extend in an are greater than a semi-circle and for substantially the full In the draw ings, I have shown three such lugs 10, which will provide a three point grip for the end of the rod as will be seen later, these points of engagement being above and below the center of the rod. Struck from the base plate 7, and projecting outwardly therefrom toward the line of lugs 10 is a spring keeper tongue 11, having thereon a protuberance 12 arranged to engage in the recess 6 of the rod end. The distance between this keeper tongue and line of the inner face of the lugs 10, is less than'the distance between the annular groove at of the rod end and its end face. Thesebrackets may be arranged with the length of their base plate 7 extending either vertically or horizontally of a suitable support such as the window frame, as shown in Fig. 1. \Vhatever the arrangement, it will be evident that the rod end 3 may be moved longitudinally of the bracket, guiding between the flanges 9 and bringing its annular groove 4 over the stop lugs 10. The depth of this groove is preferably such as to bring the periphery of the rod at its extremity to rest upon the base of the offset 8, but this is not necessarily the case and the rod end may be supported entirely by the lugs 10. As the rod end is moved longitudinally of the base plate 7, it will engage the stop lug 10 as aforesaid, positioning its annular abutment walls 5 on either side of the stop lugs and bringing the recess 6 in its end face in line with the protuberance 12 of the spring keeper, which will snap into engagement with said recessed end and detachably hold the rod end seated v ithin the cupped offset with its annular abutment flange 5 held against the stop lugs 10. As these stop lugs ext-end both above and below the center line of the rod, it will be seen that a firm support is afforded, which prevents the rod end from tipping in the ln'acket and from becoming disengaged therefrom. Nevertheless, in order to disengage the rod end from the bracket, it is only necessary to move the rod end with slight force in the direction of the length of the base plate 7.,whereupon the spring keeper 11 will be disengaged from the rod end and the same may be moved away from the cupped offset and out of 'ei'lgagement with the lugs 10 thereof.

it will, be noted here, that the division of the annular groove i: in the end of the rod provides two abutment flanges, one of which receives and transmits to the lugs 10 and lIa-acket, end pull on the rod and the other of which transn'lits to said lugs, end thrust. Because of the supportafforded above and below the center line of the rod, the rod ends are fully able to take care of such strains and are furthermore prevented from moving from strain-receiving engagement with the lugs of the cupped offset by reason of the interlocking engagement of the spring tongue 11. The form of bracket described not only provides a most useful support for the end of a rod constructed as described, but is, itself, in its specific form, a very desirable article commercially, inasmuch as it may be readily stamped from a single piece of sheet metal, as will be obvious from the showing in the drawings.

It will be obvious, while I have shown both ends of the rod end similarly formed and cooperating with the same form of bracket, that the invention proper relates to the construction of a cooperating rod end and bracket support m" 80.

While It have described a preferable embodiment of my invention, it will be obvious that the same is susceptible of change in structure and in the relative arrangement of parts within. the spirit of the invention and the scope of the appended claims.

What I claim, therefore, and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. In a device of the character described, a base arranged to be secured to a support and having an outwardly oi'l'set portion provided with a plurality of spaced stop members, a curtain rod arranged to be supported at one end by said ofl'set portion and having end abiiitinent means arranged to engage said stop members, and means arranged to engage said rod and hold its abutment in engagement with said step members.

2. In a device of the character described, a base arranged to be secured to a support and having an outwardly offset portion cupped in cross section and provided with a plurality of spaced and alined stop mem bers projecting therefrom, a curtain rod arranged to be supported at one end by said offset cupped portion and provided at such end with an annular abutment flange ar ranged to engage said stop members, and a spring member carried by said base and arranged to engage said rod end to hold its abutment flange in engagement with said stop members.

3. In a device of the character described, a base arranged to be secured to a support and having an outwardly offset portion. cupped in cross section and provided with a plurality of spaced and alined stop members projecting therefrom, a, curtain rod ar-- ranged to be supported at one end by said otliset cupped portion and provided at such end with an annular abutment flange an ranged to engage said stop members, and a spring member carried by said base and arranged to engage said rod end to hold its abutment flange in engagement with said stop members, said stop members engaging said flange at points below and above the center of said rod.

at. In a device of the character described, a base arranged to be secured to a support and having an outwardly oll'set portion, cupped in cross section and provided at alined points adjacent said base with a plurality of spaced stop lugs, a curtain rod arranged to be supported at one end by said oifset cupped portion and having at such end an annular abutment flange arranged to engage said alined lugs, and a spring keeper carried by said base and arranged to engage the end face of said rod to hold said abutment flange in engagement with said stop lugs.

5. In a device of the character described, an integral sheet metal supporting bracket comprising a base plate, an annular cupped portion offset and extending outwardly therefrom, said cupped portion having an are greater than a semi-circle, a plurality of lugs projecting from said cupped offset at circumferentially alined points adjacent said base plate, said lugs extending in an are greater than a semi-circle, a spring tongue carried by and extending from said base plate toward said lugs; and a cooperating curtain rod having its end arranged to seatwithin and be supported by said. cupped portion, said rod end being provided with an annular groove therein arranged to re ceive said stop lugs at points below and above the center of said rod, and the end face of said rod being engaged by said spring tongue to hold a wall of said groove in engagement with said lugs.

FRANK LA OTIS LATHROP.

lVit-nesses RAYMOND H. Gorr, Roy F. STUART.

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